BIBLE WORTH 10,000 ACRES
In the fourteenth century, when handwriting was a skilful labour and there was no cheap press a Bible was written by hand in the Polish language.
This Bible (supposed to have been war booty) is the property of the High School at Sarospatak in Hungary, where an English college has been formed for the first time. The Bible is regarded as a great treasure, for it was begun at the request of a Polish queen of long ago, the daughter of a Hungarian king. Poland has constantly desired to buy it from the Sarospatak school for the nation. Before the Avar they offered a million gold pieces for it, and later ten thousand acres of land. But the school library refused all offers.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11044, 18 February 1933, Page 3
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